Automatically printing off game

[joelphilippage]

How could I make a somthing print directly off of the game. I want to have the player find somthing that the player will need throughout the game that will print off when they find it.

[Gregjazz]

Do you mean print out of your printer? What if someone doesn't have a printer attached to the computer?

Or am I completely misunderstanding you...

[Khris]

I guess that's what he means.

You could zip a pdf, protect it with a password and tell the pw in-game when the player discovers the item.

I wouldn't want a game print out something directly. That's about as evil as disabling Alt-X

[Gilbert]

Well I felt awkward at first (since I don't have a printer so I would hate a game which requires to print something), but if it's some educational game and the like that are targeted for learning in a classroom I think it's alright.

You can't print stuff within an AGS game directly (I think the old console way of writing to devices like prn: won't work), you may generate a textfile that the player can print later though (or the password protected ZIP method like KhrisMUC mentioned), or, if someone makes a plugin that can print stuff directly.

[joelphilippage]

Thanks I didint know you could lock pdf files. that should work.